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Medical concept of a doctor checking a patient’s heartbeat virtually.

The future of nursing care

Faculty at Penn’s School of Nursing have created a clinical decision support early warning system that accurately detects patient deterioration.

Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics

Penn Physicist Andrea Liu and collaborators modeled the behavior of tissue during a stage of fly development and found, surprisingly, it doesn’t fluidize as it shrinks but stays solid. Their approach could offer insights physical systems with complex functionality.

More than a year in as Annenberg dean, Sarah Banet-Weiser focuses on care and collaboration

Drawing on her background as a scholar of gender in media and founder of the Center for Collaborative Communication, she is supporting community members as they drive communication research around democracy, climate, health, and more.

Helping Korean Americans with end-of-life planning is her passion

Eunice Park-Clinton, a nurse case manager in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Emergency Department, leads seminars for Korean-speaking families to understand end-of-life care, with funding from a Penn Medicine CARES grant.

Emily Han, a doctoral student in the Mitchell Lab.

Unlocking the brain: Peptide-guided nanoparticles deliver mRNA to neurons

Researchers in the lab of Michael Mitchell in Penn Engineering have developed a method for delivering lipid nanoparticles across the blood-brain barrier specifically to targeted neurons.

Jessica Varner on the long arc of built environment and its materials

Varner, an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School, explores the intersections between architectural, environmental, and chemical history.

a black squirrel perched on a tree trunk

What’s That? Black squirrels

Penn Today spoke to Sarah Tomke in the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Wildlife Futures Program about the black squirrels regularly seen on College Green. They are black because of a genetic mutation in the melanin receptor protein, which regulates pigment.

Dorothy Roberts teaching a class at Penn Carey Law.

Dorothy Roberts on reproductive rights and justice

PIK Professor Roberts designed her Penn Carey Law course around a reproductive justice framework, which extends far beyond access to abortion.

Nurse adjusts IV for older Black man in hospital bed.

Hospitals that serve more Black patients have poorer nurse staffing, study shows

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing researchers and collaborators found that hospitals serving disproportionately Black patients have more patients per nurse.

Aaron Levy and students gathered around a table filled with images.

Through Literature of Care course, a curriculum of compassion

Literature of Care, a course offered every fall in the School of Arts & Sciences, explores medical humanities and the role storytelling plays in patient care.

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